John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2012: When President Ernest Bai Koroma assumed power in 2007, his major priority was to work towards the implementation of an ‘Agenda for Change’. This ‘Agenda for Change’ aims at moving the country to a new direction in the areas of agriculture, infrastructure, [Read More]
3 April 2012 The government of Sierra Leone should urgently pass the pending Freedom of Information Bill (FOI), the Freedom of Information Coalition Sierra Leone (FOICSL), Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International said yesterday. “Information is essential to ensuring transparency and accountability” The legislation would allow members of the public [Read More]
2 April 2012 Politics in Sierra Leone took a rather sinister, yet intriguing twist last Week, when the country’s volatile and unpredictable minister of internal affairs – responsible for internal security – Musa Tarawallie, told the BBC World Service – Focus on Africa, that the ruling APC party is stockpiling [Read More]
31 March 2012 The rise in the use of mobile telephony in African countries, such as Sierra Leone, has had a far greater impact on society than any other technological breakthroughs – ever to grace the shores of the continent. Mobile phones are the must have gadgets – among the [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas 28 March 2012 John Ernest Leigh the former presidential aspirant of Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the SLPP, has officially registered his membership of the ruling APC party – a party he is on record to have lambasted throughout his political career, as corrupt and inept. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2012: The name Michael Schulenburg does not resonate well amongst senior ministers and APC party rank and file, who have not only declared the UN diplomat – persona non grata in Sierra Leone, but regard him as public enemy number one. Like his predecessor – [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 25 March 2012 An old African saying states that; ‘when a child trips, he looks ahead of him to see who is watching; but when an elder falls, he looks behind to see what caused his downfall.’ What has crystalised in recent months in Sierra Leone is [Read More]
Dr. Ngozi Achebe 24 March 2012 By the time the funeral cortege of General Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu arrived in Eastern Nigeria – the home of the former secessionist enclave known as Biafra, he had already done the rounds of Nigeria. Ironically, Ojukwu was actually born in Zungeru, [Read More]
23 March 2012 The head of the United Nations Peace Building Mission to Sierra Leone – Mr. Michael Schulenburg, who was withdrawn from the country by his bosses in New York, because he was ‘deemed unfit for office’ and hence declared ‘persona non grata’ by president Koroma’s government, has spoken [Read More]
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